Sports Media Roundtable: CBS's longterm NFL desires and Jason Benetti joins NBC Sports
Sports Media with Richard Deitsch
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4.5 • 757 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Episode 599 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Sports Media Watch editor and founder Jon Lewis and SBJ media reporter Austin Karp. In this podcast we discuss Paramount chairman/CEO David Ellison telling CNBC that the company plans to continue its relationship with the National Football League and what the means; Jason Benetti joining NBC as lead play by play announcer for "Sunday Night Baseball;" CBS and TNT Sports announcing their joint NCAA men’s basketball tournament broadcast teams; TNT Sports picking up media rights to FIBA tournaments in the U.S.,; Tubi carrying alt-casts F-1 races and practice and qualifying sessions available to stream through Yahoo Sports; the Lakers-Warriors brutal rating on ABC; our thoughts on the World Baseball Classic; Austin's interview with CAA agents and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the sports media podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host, Richard Dodge. |
| 0:09.8 | My producer is Patrick Antenetti. |
| 0:11.7 | This is our usual roundtable. |
| 0:14.8 | And we've been trying to do this for Saturdays where the downloads have been great. |
| 0:19.5 | I guess people are people like listening to sports podcast on a Saturday. |
| 0:22.7 | Who knew? |
| 0:23.2 | But we will continue to do that. |
| 0:25.2 | And who better to have an Austin Carp lead sports media writer for Sports Business |
| 0:29.3 | Journal and John Lewis, editor and founder of sports media watch. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, fellas. |
| 0:36.0 | Hey, folks. |
| 0:37.4 | Hello, Richard. Hey, folks. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello, Richard. |
| 0:41.0 | All right, we will start here. |
| 0:46.9 | It's always good to start with the NFL, because it is, you know, as we've been told many times, |
| 0:50.1 | the content that's holding up the entire ecosystem. |
| 1:00.8 | So, Paramount Chairman, CEO, David Ellison, says on CNBC that the company has sort of planned accordingly, I believe that's his quote, to continue its relationship with the NFL, no surprise, |
| 1:05.6 | but did not comment on what he called an ongoing negotiation. Our buddy John Orand from, You're in the Varsity, has reported |
| 1:14.1 | that he believes that CBS will be the first entity to conduct the negotiations with the NFL as part of |
| 1:22.5 | their opt-out. I'm going to start with you, Austin. And I've talked about this on this podcast a couple of |
| 1:29.2 | times. From reading the tea leaves and certainly from reading the reporting, I don't think |
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